Volume 100, Issue 15

18 April 2008

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On the Cover

Proposed drug delivery system of a dendrimer (green) attached to a cell membrane surface (pink) with strands of DNA (blue curved lines) and folic acid keys (blue arrows).

From the article:

Kinetic Limitations of Cooperativity-Based Drug Delivery Systems
Nicholas A. Licata and Alexei V. Tkachenko
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 158102 (2008)

HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronically Driven Structure Changes of Si Captured by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

Maher Harb, Ralph Ernstorfer, Christoph T. Hebeisen, Germán Sciaini, Weina Peng, Thibault Dartigalongue, Mark A. Eriksson, Max G. Lagally, Sergei G. Kruglik, and R. J. Dwayne Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155504 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Specific-Heat Evidence for Two-Gap Superconductivity in the Ternary-Iron Silicide ${Lu}_{2} {Fe}_{3} {Si}_{5}$

Y. Nakajima, T. Nakagawa, T. Tamegai, and H. Harima

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 157001 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

LETTERS

General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.

Atoms in a Radio-Frequency-Dressed Optical Lattice

N. Lundblad, P. J. Lee, I. B. Spielman, B. L. Brown, W. D. Phillips, and J. V. Porto

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150401 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Kinetics of the Phase Separation Transition in Cold-Atom Boson-Fermion Mixtures

Dmitry Solenov and Dmitry Mozyrsky

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150402 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Superfluid Pairing Gap in Strong Coupling

J. Carlson and Sanjay Reddy

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150403 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Bell Inequality Violation with Two Remote Atomic Qubits

D. N. Matsukevich, P. Maunz, D. L. Moehring, S. Olmschenk, and C. Monroe

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150404 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Extraction of Singlet States from Noninteracting High-Dimensional Spins

F. Ciccarello, M. Paternostro, M. S. Kim, and G. M. Palma

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150501 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Counting Statistics of Non-Markovian Quantum Stochastic Processes

Christian Flindt, Tomáš Novotný, Alessandro Braggio, Maura Sassetti, and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150601 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Stability of the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio

A. Shelkovnikov, R. J. Butcher, C. Chardonnet, and A. Amy-Klein

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 150801 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Gravitation and Astrophysics

Binary–Black-Hole Merger: Symmetry and the Spin Expansion

Latham Boyle, Michael Kesden, and Samaya Nissanke

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 151101 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Universal Charge-Radius Relation for Subatomic and Astrophysical Compact Objects

Jes Madsen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 151102 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Elementary Particles and Fields

Measurement of the Proton Asymmetry Parameter in Neutron Beta Decay

M. Schumann, M. Kreuz, M. Deissenroth, F. Glück, J. Krempel, B. Märkisch, D. Mund, A. Petoukhov, T. Soldner, and H. Abele

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 151801 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Measurement of the Branching Fractions of Exclusive $\bar{B} \to D^{(*)} (π) l^{-} {\bar{ν}}_{l}$ Decays in Events with a Fully Reconstructed $B$ Meson

B. Aubert et al. (BABAR Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 151802 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Quark-Mass Dependence of the $ρ$ and $σ$ Mesons from Dispersion Relations and Chiral Perturbation Theory

C. Hanhart, J. R. Peláez, and G. Ríos

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 152001 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

How to Probe High Gluon Densities in $p p$ Collisions at the Large Hadron Collider

H. J. Drescher and M. Strikman

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 152002 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Nuclear Physics

Effect of Partonic “Wind” on Charm Quark Correlations in High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

X. Zhu, N. Xu, and P. Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 152301 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Lifetime Measurement of the First Excited $2^{+}$ State in ${}^{16}C$

M. Wiedeking, P. Fallon, A. O. Macchiavelli, J. Gibelin, M. S. Basunia, R. M. Clark, M. Cromaz, M.-A. Deleplanque, S. Gros, H. B. Jeppesen, P. T. Lake, I.-Y. Lee, L. G. Moretto, J. Pavan, L. Phair, E. Rodriguez-Vietiez, L. A. Bernstein, D. L. Bleuel, J. T. Harke, S. R. Lesher, B. F. Lyles, and N. D. Scielzo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 152501 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Determination of the $N = 16$ Shell Closure at the Oxygen Drip Line

C. R. Hoffman, T. Baumann, D. Bazin, J. Brown, G. Christian, P. A. DeYoung, J. E. Finck, N. Frank, J. Hinnefeld, R. Howes, P. Mears, E. Mosby, S. Mosby, J. Reith, B. Rizzo, W. F. Rogers, G. Peaslee, W. A. Peters, A. Schiller, M. J. Scott, S. L. Tabor, M. Thoennessen, P. J. Voss, and T. Williams

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 152502 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Measured Lifetime of ${SF}_{6}^{-}$

Jyoti Rajput, Lutz Lammich, and Lars H. Andersen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153001 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Observing Zitterbewegung with Ultracold Atoms

J. Y. Vaishnav and Charles W. Clark

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153002 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Trapping Molecules on a Chip in Traveling Potential Wells

Samuel A. Meek, Hendrick L. Bethlem, Horst Conrad, and Gerard Meijer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153003 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Adiabatic Approximation in Nonperturbative Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory

M. Thiele, E. K. U. Gross, and S. Kümmel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153004 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Total Control over Ultracold Interactions via Electric and Magnetic Fields

Bout Marcelis, Boudewijn Verhaar, and Servaas Kokkelmans

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153201 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Photoemission of a Single-Electron Wave Packet in a Strong Laser Field

Justin Peatross, Carsten Müller, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153601 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Classical Optics, etc.

Observation of Soliton Tunneling Phenomena and Soliton Ejection

Assaf Barak, Or Peleg, Chris Stucchio, Avy Soffer, and Mordechai Segev

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153901 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

“Aether Drag” and Moving Images

J. Leach, A. J. Wright, J. B. Götte, J. M. Girkin, L. Allen, S. Franke-Arnold, S. M. Barnett, and M. J. Padgett

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153902 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Laboratory Demonstration of an Infrared-to-Visible Up-Conversion Interferometer for Spatial Coherence Analysis

S. Brustlein, L. Del Rio, A. Tonello, L. Delage, F. Reynaud, H. Herrmann, and W. Sohler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153903 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Geometric Properties of Optimal Photonic Crystals

Ole Sigmund and Kristian Hougaard

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153904 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Long Wave–Short Wave Resonance in Nonlinear Negative Refractive Index Media

Aref Chowdhury and John A. Tataronis

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 153905 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Air Ingestion by a Buckled Viscous Jet of Silicone Oil Impacting the Free Surface of the Same Liquid

B. Pouligny and M. Chassande-Mottin

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 154501 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Similarity between the Primary and Secondary Air-Assisted Liquid Jet Breakup Mechanisms

Yujie Wang, Kyoung-Su Im, and Kamel Fezzaa

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 154502 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Plasma and Beam Physics

Confinement Time Exceeding One Second for a Toroidal Electron Plasma

J. P. Marler and M. R. Stoneking

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155001 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Experimental Demonstration of Plasma-Drag Acceleration of a Dust Cloud to Hypervelocities

C. M. Ticoş, Zhehui Wang, G. A. Wurden, J. L. Kline, D. S. Montgomery, L. A. Dorf, and P. K. Shukla

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155002 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Effect of an Energy Reservoir on the Atmospheric Propagation of Laser-Plasma Filaments

Shmuel Eisenmann, Joseph Peñano, Phillip Sprangle, and Arie Zigler

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155003 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Direct High-Power Laser Acceleration of Ions for Medical Applications

Yousef I. Salamin, Zoltán Harman, and Christoph H. Keitel

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155004 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Gibbsian Theory of Power-Law Distributions

R. A. Treumann and C. H. Jaroschek

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155005 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Structure, etc.

New Non-Goldstone Collective Mode of BEC of Magnons in Superfluid ${}^{3}{He} − B$

M. Človečko, E. Gažo, M. Kupka, and P. Skyba

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155301 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Nanoscale Depth-Resolved Coherent Femtosecond Motion in Laser-Excited Bismuth

S. L. Johnson, P. Beaud, C. J. Milne, F. S. Krasniqi, E. S. Zijlstra, M. E. Garcia, M. Kaiser, D. Grolimund, R. Abela, and G. Ingold

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155501 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Fundamental Differences in Mechanical Behavior between Two Types of Crystals at the Nanoscale

Steffen Brinckmann, Ju-Young Kim, and Julia R. Greer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155502 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Coherent Diffractive Imaging Using Phase Front Modifications

I. Johnson, K. Jefimovs, O. Bunk, C. David, M. Dierolf, J. Gray, D. Renker, and F. Pfeiffer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155503 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Electronically Driven Structure Changes of Si Captured by Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

Maher Harb, Ralph Ernstorfer, Christoph T. Hebeisen, Germán Sciaini, Weina Peng, Thibault Dartigalongue, Mark A. Eriksson, Max G. Lagally, Sergei G. Kruglik, and R. J. Dwayne Miller

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155504 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Melting Line of Hydrogen at High Pressures

Shanti Deemyad and Isaac F. Silvera

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155701 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

New Phase Transition in the $\Pr_{1 - x} {Ca}_{x} {MnO}_{3}$ System: Evidence for Electrical Polarization in Charge Ordered Manganites

A. M. L. Lopes, J. P. Araújo, V. S. Amaral, J. G. Correia, Y. Tomioka, and Y. Tokura

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155702 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Probing the Role of Single Defects on the Thermodynamics of Electric-Field Induced Phase Transitions

S. V. Kalinin, S. Jesse, B. J. Rodriguez, Y. H. Chu, R. Ramesh, E. A. Eliseev, and A. N. Morozovska

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155703 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Coexistence of Ferromagnetism and Paramagnetism in a Ferromagnetic Monolayer

Ryszard Zdyb and Ernst Bauer

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155704 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Mechanism of Boron Diffusion in Amorphous Silicon

Salvatore Mirabella, Davide De Salvador, Elena Bruno, Enrico Napolitani, Emanuele F. Pecora, Simona Boninelli, and Francesco Priolo

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155901 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Mesoscopic Photon Heat Transistor

Teemu Ojanen and Antti-Pekka Jauho

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 155902 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Role of Interaction Anisotropy in the Formation and Stability of Molecular Templates

U. K. Weber, V. M. Burlakov, L. M. A. Perdigão, R. H. J. Fawcett, P. H. Beton, N. R. Champness, J. H. Jefferson, G. A. D. Briggs, and D. G. Pettifor

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156101 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Effect of Metal Elements in Catalytic Growth of Carbon Nanotubes

Oleg V. Yazyev and Alfredo Pasquarello

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156102 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Condensed Matter: Electronic Properties, etc.

Topological Mott Insulators

S. Raghu, Xiao-Liang Qi, C. Honerkamp, and Shou-Cheng Zhang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156401 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Spin-Orbit-Mediated Anisotropic Spin Interaction in Interacting Electron Systems

Suhas Gangadharaiah, Jianmin Sun, and Oleg A. Starykh

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156402 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Direct Observation of Whispering Gallery Mode Polaritons and their Dispersion in a ZnO Tapered Microcavity

Liaoxin Sun, Zhanghai Chen, Qijun Ren, Ke Yu, Lihui Bai, Weihang Zhou, Hui Xiong, Z. Q. Zhu, and Xuechu Shen

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156403 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008

Proposal for a New Class of Materials: Spin Gapless Semiconductors

X. L. Wang

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156404 (2008) - Published 18 April, 2008

Electrically Tunable Spin Polarization in a Carbon Nanotube Spin Diode

Christopher A. Merchant and Nina Marković

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156601 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Direct Mapping of Strain in a Strained Silicon Transistor by High-Resolution Electron Microscopy

Florian Hüe, Martin Hÿtch, Hugo Bender, Florent Houdellier, and Alain Claverie

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156602 (2008) - Published 17 April, 2008

Shot Noise in Graphene

L. DiCarlo, J. R. Williams, Yiming Zhang, D. T. McClure, and C. M. Marcus

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156801 (2008) - Published 14 April, 2008

Correlated Tunneling and the Instability of the Fractional Quantum Hall Edge

Dror Orgad and Oded Agam

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156802 (2008) - Published 15 April, 2008

Optical Detection of Single-Electron Spin Resonance in a Quantum Dot

Martin Kroner, Kathrina M. Weiss, Benjamin Biedermann, Stefan Seidl, Stephan Manus, Alexander W. Holleitner, Antonio Badolato, Pierre M. Petroff, Brian D. Gerardot, Richard J. Warburton, and Khaled Karrai

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 156803 (2008) - Published 16 April, 2008